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I agree with Cloverleaf. I was going to say they both looked like pullets to me, until I got to the last two pictures on the blue. He has a pretty girly comb, but I can see some pointy saddle feathers coming in on that boy!

Sorry, I wasn't clear in my post. I do know that white and splash are different and that white and black can not make blue. But I have seen some people who don't understand the basics of how B/B/S work approach it with the idea that you could cross a white bird with a black bird and get blue...

It does seem like a logical assumption. But then again, so does the theory that you can get a blue bird by crossing a white bird and a black bird (after all, blue is really just a shade of grey and black+white=grey, right?). I will be the first to admit that I know nothing about the genetics...

You will need to wait at least a few months before you rehome any if you are looking for "show potential." Unless a chick has obvious faults like a single comb, feather stubs on the legs, wrong color legs, etc, you absolutely can not tell this early which ones are "show potential" and which...

Back on topic, has anyone else noticed their BBS Ameraucana to be more vocal? Granted, I only have two and one is (I believe) descended from the other and they are both low on the pecking order, but those girls have bigger mouths than anyone else in my flock! My black hen will yell any time I...

Just because you have a trio doesn't mean you necessarily have to start breeding right away (just resist the urge to pop those fertile eggs into the incubator...if you can!). But if you're looking for show quality, it's much less of a gamble to start with adult, or at least started, stock...

I don't know that I'd say it's exactly "normal," but it's unfortunately not uncommon. Especially with shipped eggs and especially if you do not have a lot of incubating/hatching experience. Even with tons of hatching experience, sometimes things are just beyond your control. Losses can occur...

It's not really that surprising. With solid colored birds there is less to focus on and it's easier to concentrate on getting the type as close to perfect as possible. With patterned birds you really have to keep an eye on both type and the nuances of the pattern and it's harder to get both to...

I can understand where you would be coming from. However, consider this: the intent of showing (be it poultry, rabbits, cats, dogs, horses, and, I imagine, budgies) is not simply to be recognized for your work. The point of taking birds to a show is to get an objective opinion on how they...

There is no such thing as a "recognized breeder" of Ameraucanas. There are breeders out there who have worked their butts off and are well known because they have quality stock. But that's not the same thing at all. There is a list of breeders that the Ameraucana club maintains, but you have...

In the US they are easy enough to come by (that seller is located in CA). However, the poster is in Canada and while it is easier to transport birds or eggs across the US-Canadian border than it is to say cross the border into England or Europe, it's still full of red tape and hassles. Most...

First, since it is a cochin mix that automatically makes it an EE, not an ameraucana. In order to be an Ameraucana, you would have to have two ameraucana parents (at least...even then there are circumstances under which you can get EE from two ameraucana parents). Second, I don't know...

I'd say boy for sure. Pullets/hens just don't grow those kinds of feathers (with the rare exception of a hen with a traumatic injury to the active ovary which causes the inactive ovary to then become active and causes male secondary sex characteristics to appear as a result). At 4 months he...

That's not true at all. Muffs are not a requirement for an EE, and many people use clean faced Ameraucana culls in their EE pens. My only EE is clean faced (no muffs). Of the 5 EE chicks I received in my order, she was the only one who did not have muffs. She was also the only one who had...

No kidding! Send some of that dryer lint my way. Way cuter than what I pull out of my dryer (which, incidentally, is often a similar color when do dog laundry!).

I wouldn't stress about it too much. Other than the one cockerel, none of the others look like EE to me. Given that he is so different from all the rest, I would suspect an honest mistake or a fence-jumping roo was involved. The rest all appear to have the correct combs and leg color (there...

I don't think there is a name for this color. It looks like the result of mixing two "genetically incompatible" colors. It's very similar to some cockerels I have growing out right now from my blue ameraucana rooster over speckled sussex and an EE hens. This guy is the result of a blue...

I'm really liking this little blue pullet. I'm not 100% sure that she's not an EE, all I know for sure is that all of the eggs for the hatch she came out of were green (my black ameraucana hen lays a green egg almost the exact same shade as my EE) and fertilized by my blue ameraucana rooster...

Quote: That OR part is what makes splash Ameraucanas not Easter Eggers. It's also where those who are hung up on semantics can put the "project Ameraucana" label on colors like lavender instead of calling them EE. Neither splash or lavender meet a variety description in the Ameraucana...

LOL, I was thinking the exact same thing! Except in my mind he's also wagging his other finger at you while he's saying it. Whites are so pretty! I wish they didn't yellow in the sun the way they do.